ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
MEETING DATE: May 28, 2025 AGENDA CATEGORY: Consent - Agreement TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Christian Clegg, City Manager
DATE: May 20, 2025
SUBJECT: Amendment No.2 to Agreement 2024-004 with Garden Pathways (increase compensation $175,000, revised not to exceed $325,000; and extend term to December 31, 2025) for intervention, prevention, and mentoring services to educate, motivate, and rehabilitate high-risk individuals of gun violence
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommend approval of the amendment.
BACKGROUND:
On January 10, 2024, CITY and CONTRACTOR entered into Agreement No. 2024 -004 for intervention, prevention, and mentoring services to educate, motivate, and rehabilitate high -risk individuals of gun violence. On November 20, 2024, CITY and CONTRACTOR entered into Agreement No. 2024 -004(1) to increase the total compensation by One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) for a total compensation amount not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) and extend the term to June 30, 2025.
Garden Pathways has worked in a concerted effort with City, the Bakersfield Police Department, and other community partners to: 1) Actively assist and support the direct, respectful communication of an evidence-based "risk and opportunity" message; 2) Participate in and actively support an intensive partnership-based management cycle; 3) Provide program clients with intensive case management; 4) Assist in mediating situations and preventing retaliation between individuals and groups.
The City of Bakersfield’s newly established Office of Violence Intervention and Prevention (OVIP) wishes to again amend Agreement No. 2024 -004 to increase the total compensation by One Hundred Seventy - Five Thousand Dollars ($175,000) for a total compensation amount not to exceed Three Hundred Twenty- Five Thousand Dollars ($325,000) and extend the term to December 31, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding for this Amendment is budgeted in Fiscal Year 2024 -25 and is also augmented by state funding used from the CALVIP state program along with PSVS funding. No additional funding from the General Funds will be used for these services.
COUNCIL GOAL:
Safety and Resilience
ATTACHMENTS:
Amendment No. 2 to Agreement No. 2024-004